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dike TVash in Lincolnshire. Like the Lapwing, 

 when disturbed, they flew over our heads, car- 

 rying their necks and long legs quite extended, 

 and made a shrill noise (Ttvit) twice repeated, 

 during the whole time. The country people, 

 for this reason, call them YelperSj and some- 

 times distinguish them by the name of Picarini. 

 They feed on worms and insects that they scoop 

 with their bills out of the sand; their search af- 

 ter food is frequently to be discerned on our 

 shores by alternate semicircular marks in the 

 sand, which shew their progress. They lay 

 two eggs about the size of those of a pigeon, 

 white tinged with green,* and marked with large 

 black spots. 



* Dr. Latham says, that the eggs are of a cinereous grey, 

 whimsically marked with deep brownish black patches of irre- 

 gular sizes and shapes, besides some undermarkings of a diisky 

 hue. Ed. 



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